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IV. On a new species of the genus Orthezia. By 

 J. W. Douglas. 



[Read February 6th, 1884.] 



Plate II. 

 In June, 1881, Monsieur J. Lichtenstein, of Montpellier, 

 had the kindness to send me two examples, male and 

 female, of an Orthezia, with the following very interest- 

 ing information : — " I send you the male of an Orthezia 

 which I consider is different from 0. urticce ; it comes 

 from the island of Montecristo, Italy, where it feeds on 

 Erica arhorea. I enclosed it, as a nymph, between two 

 pieces of mica, but it has nevertheless undergone its 

 change to imago, and is perfectly fresh, without a bristle 

 of its fine tail lost. I intended to describe the insect, 

 but, as I have no time left now, I send also the female, 

 put alive between two pieces of glass, and there some 

 young ones have emerged from her. Of course they 

 came out of eggs enclosed in the pouch formed by the 

 chalky tail-piece, and were not laid alive. If you please 

 you can describe the whole, having male, female, and 

 young." After long hesitation, caused by the imperfect 

 condition of the female, I have now, in default of having 

 obtained a better example, resolved to make the descrip- 

 tion, as well as the material at hand admits; the de- 

 ficiency may be supplied hereafter. 



Orthezia mcenariensis. 



Mas. Niger. Capite parvo, transverso, antice angusto, declivi, 

 postice tribus ocellis munito ; oculis magnis, productis ; antennis 

 longissimis, articulis duobus primis brevibus, crassis, parce setosis, 

 caeteris (7) longis, subaequalibus, filiformibiis, subtiliter setulosis, 

 pieeo-nigris ; pronoto magno, subquadrato, in quatuor partes con- 

 vexas, diviso, angulis anticis depressis ; scutello magno ; alis (ant.) 

 longissimis, latis, margine postico late rotmidato, griseis, hyalinis, 

 farinosis, vena furcata fusca ; halteribus parvis, nigris, apice obtuso 

 duabus setis recurvis instructo ; abdomine brevi, segmento abdomi- 

 nali ultimo pluribus setis longissimis albis superne instructo, seg- 

 mentis genitalibus liberis; pedibus piceo-nigris, setulosis. Long. 

 Corp. fere ^ lin., cum aKs plus 1 lin., cum penicillo 1^ lin. 



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